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Introduction
Jeremiah within our last message declared the coming of a Messiah, which we know was Jesus Christ.
He revealed how the false prophets and priests were leading the people of God astray and showed no care for them.
This week, God continues to declare the unfaithfulness of the false prophets and priests and reveals what He feels about their worship and acts.
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A broken heart (vv.9-10)
Jeremiah states that his heart is broken, My heart within me is broken, and physically distraught, all my bones shake.
Not only was his heart broken, he was distraught, beside himself, such as a man who is drunk, I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome.
Why was this?
Jeremiah was broken and distraught because...
Jeremiah was broken hearted and distraught because of the false prophets - ‘…because of the false prophets...’
Jeremiah was broken hearted and distraught because of the trust and obedience of the people toward the false prophets
The people had fallowed the false prophets blindly.
Their obedience to the false prophets led them into a life of spiritual adultery, Baal worship, For the land is full of adulterers.
These false prophets, that the people followed and obeyed, did not bring them the blessings they believed they would but rather brought them cursing, the land mourns because of the curse, the pastures…have dried up.
This curse was from God.
It was the fulfillment of the Deuteronomic curse that God promised would take place, if the people rebelled against His word.
Jeremiah was broken hearted and distraught because of the judgment to come
‘…Because of the Lord and because of His holy words...’
All were profane (vv.11-12)
The prophets and priest were profane
Literally, the prophecies of the prophets and the teachings of the priest were polluted with lies and evil.
The house of God was profane - ‘...in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord...’
Their sin would bring their demise - ‘…their way shall be unto them as slipper ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein...’
God’s judgement was coming - ‘…for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation...’
This would be fulfilled in the conquest of Babylon.
The taste of sin (vv.13-14)
The sin of the false prophets was unsavory to God - ‘…I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria...’
God view all that was taking place.
Nothing was hid from his view.
He saw how the prophets had lead the people of Israel astray.
The prophets had caused them to commit spiritual and physical harlotry through the worship of Baal.
They had led the people into spiritual err, the committing of adultery and walking in deceit.
This unsavory worship was not only in Samaria, but was also in the city of God, Jerusalem, have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem, a horrible thing.
Jeremiah, saw the sin of the prophets in Jerusalem more evil than that of the prophets in Samaria.
He states, a horrible thing.
This translates in the Hebrew, “rotten,” or “inedible.”
God hated the taste of their worship.
God found their worship unsavory due to their lack of repentance
Rather than the prophets calling the people of God to repentance they solidified their sin and rebellion, they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no has turned back from his wickedness.
God found their sin so detestable that he compared them to the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, All of them have become to Me like Sodom, and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
God says, taste what you have given me (v.15)
God was going to feed the false prophets what they fed him - ‘…Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall...’
God was going to repay the false prophets for their spreading of lies and their causing Spiritual harlotry among his people - ‘…for from the prophets of Jerusalem in profaneness gone forth into all the land...’
Conclusion
When we live in sin, our worship and praise of God is not received well by God.
It is filled with pollution.
God calls it inedible.
May we realize, as God told the false prophets, we will reap what we sow.
Let this be an encouragement to us to be obedient and faithful to the Lord.
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